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The Quiet American (1958)

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Release Date: Feb 8, 1958 Wide

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The Quiet American was the first major American-financed film to touch upon the powder-keg situation in Vietnam (still referred to as Indochina in 1958). Audie Murphy plays an enigmatic American who comes to Saigon, ostensibly on an economic mission. He meets an embittered journalist (Michael Redgrave) who is living with an Indochinese girl (Giorgia Moll). The American falls for the girl and promises to marry her. In retaliation, the reporter tells the communists that the American GI's economist

Unrated, 2 hr.

Drama, Mystery & Suspense, Classics

Directed By: Joseph L. Mankiewicz

In Theaters: Feb 8, 1958 Wide

On DVD: Apr 19, 2005

Cast

Audie Murphy
The American
Michael Redgrave
Thomas Fowler
Claude Dauphin
Inspector Vigot
Giorgia Moll
Phuong
Kerima
Phuong's Sister
Bruce Cabot
Bill Granger
Fred Sadoff
Dominguez
Richard Loo
Mr. Heng
Peter Trent
Eliot Wilkins
Clinton Anderson
Joe Morton
Sonia Moser
Yvette
Georges Brehat
French Colonel
Vo Doan Chau
Cao-Dai Commandant
Phoung Thi Nghiep
Isabelle
Yoko Tani
Hostess
Le Van Le
Cao-Dai Pope's Deputy
Long Nguyen
Boy with Mask

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Mankiewicz (who also wrote the adapted screenplay) does a fine job balancing romance, intrigue and war.

July 22, 2011 Full Review Source: Reeling Reviews

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Robin Clifford

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One of Mankiewicz's weaker films, a verbose, disappointingly sanitized version of Graham Greene's cynical novel about American involvement in Indo-China, with mediocre turns by Murphy and Redgrave.

March 26, 2008 Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com

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Emanuel Levy

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The Quiet American is loosely adapted from Graham Greene's penetrating 1956 book about the Indo-China War.

April 21, 2003 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews

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Dennis Schwartz

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Featuring a love triangle that is somewhat flat, there is some entertainment value in the conversational interplay between the two suitors. Against a backdrop of Indo-China warfare, with French colonial forces battling Communists, the film is set in Saigon and features authentic feeling backdrops. I read of some

July 10, 2010